Re: Estimates on data and cost per department for institutional Archives? Stevan Harnad 13 Jan 2004 17:00 UTC
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Charles W. Bailey, Jr. wrote: > DSpace has a broader scope than just eprints; however > some cost data is available... > > Barton, Mary R., and Julie Harford Walker. "Building a > Business Plan for DSpace, MIT Libraries' Digital Institutional > Repository" Journal of Digital Information 4(2) (2003) > (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Barton/). - > > ...the authors conservatively estimate a budget of $285,000 for > FY 2003. The bulk of the costs are for staff ($225,000), with > smaller allocations for operating expenses ($25,000) and system > hardware expansion ($35,000). MIT's DSpace service offerings have > two components: core services (basic repository functions) and > premium services (e.g., digitization and e-format conversion, > metadata support, expanded user storage space, and user alerts and > reports). While core services are free, MIT reserves the right to > potentially charge for premium services. For further information > (http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-fed-test/implement/mellon.pdf) > > ....system development costs "included $1.8 million for development > as well as 3 FTE HP staff and approximately $400,000 in system equipment." (1) DSpace's "broader scope" is precisely what I meant by: "if steam is to gather under institutional archiving initiatives 'like DSpace' then they need to get their act together and focus it specifically on the institutional self-archiving of peer-reviewed research output." http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3415.html (2) Other costs, for other uses, are irrelevant and should not be factored in. (That includes all staff and operating expenses related to those other uses.) (3) EPrints cost an order of magnitude less to develop (and it was developed, before DSpace, by the same person who developed DSpace, Rob Tansley, but following specs that were specifically focussed on the self-archiving of institutional peer-reviewed research output, not other things). (4) Creating and maintaining EPrint costs *two* orders of magnitude less than the above figures for DSpace. (5) None of these figures will answer my question about how much self-archiving costs *per paper* until we reckon in the annual institutional research article output. (6) The biggest difference between DSpace and EPrints is that EPrints does not offer a *business plan,* as above, but a plan for filling the archives with the targetted content: the annual institutional research article output. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#institution-facilitate-filling http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#researcher/authors-do http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#libraries-do http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#research-funders-do http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#publishers-do EPrints, in other words, is only about OA provision. DSpace is about many other things. You will only mislead yourself and others if you factor in the costs of all those other things in reckoning OA self-archiving costs. DSpace and EPrints are equivalent insofar as their OA self-archiving capabilities are concerned, and those are the only capabilities with which those who are interested in OA provision need be concerned. (Before replying about preservation, digital content management, courseware or electronic publication, please see the prior discussions below!) "EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2670.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2837.html Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org Hypermail Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin.htm